Hi Indy,
I've configured appr. 30 DG installations, 8(.1.7/9.01/9.2.0.2 and up), and
only one of them was LSB. This one was intended for serving the www-access,
and witth the LSB solution the internet-users couldn't hurt performance on
the Primary (publishing) system. HA was asserted using a PSB server as
well. LSB appeared not be as stable as we wished. (This is 9.2.0.2)
Apart from whatever OS you are on, I would not advise you to rely on LSB
for failover purposes. For reporting, in some cases, yes, it can be useful.
For High Availability you should rely on PSB. If you need both HA and LSB,
consider configuring both LSB and PSB.
All the documented stuff in Chapter 8 of the DG Concepts & Administration
Guide should make you doubt whether you would rely on this for HA. At least
I did, and decided not to go for it and advise my customers accordingly.
There are simply too much failures possible in the Log Apply services
related to unallowed DML etc. As long as you are not responsible for the
DML executed (which DBA is?), applications can seriously damage the setup
you tediously created. PSB is pretty straightforward, once you master the
concepts, and has pretty much matureness right now. LSB is still immature
(at least in 9i, I'm setting up a test in 10g).
Regards, Carel-Jan
At 02:10 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
Hi,
Is there anybody configured Logical Standby on Sun solaris and if yes, can you please update the ORacle/OS version including any additional Patches. The important point I need to know if they have done the successful switchover. I had tried this and it failed and still working with Oracle support but so far with no result. If somebody has done the Switchover test on other paltform, then please share the Platform. I am doing some test with ORacle 10G today so as see if it works there. Actually I had one of the Reporting site created with Logical standby for QA and it failed to switchover and so been struck with rollover to PRoduction.
Thanks
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